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Rh So I gently approached, and she let me stand there, While I helped myself, thinking: ! And when she's appeared, and will clasp you and kiss, Or when those embraces and kisses ye miss, Take refuge, till found is some worthier bliss, In the comforting !

I am called by my fate far away from each friend; Ye loved ones, then: ! With wallet light-laden from hence I must wend, So double our ! Whate'er to his treasure the niggard may add, Yet regard for the joyous will ever be had, For gladness lends ever its charms to the glad, So, brethren, sing: !

And what shall we say of to-day as it flies? I thought but of: ! 'Tis one of those truly that seldom arise, So again and again sing: ! For joy through a wide-open portal it guides, Bright glitter the clouds as the curtain divides, And a form, a divine one, to greet us in glides, While we thunder our:.

 THE MINSTREL.

" tuneful strains salute mine ear Without the castle walls? Oh, let the song reëcho here, Within our festal halls!" 